TY - JOUR AB - Large numbers of organizations are taking great interest in the idea of knowledge management and many are launching knowledge management initiatives and programmes. A large proportion of such initiatives will fail. Yet, despite the injunctions to “learn from failure”, little detailed attention has been paid to why and how these apparently popular initiatives run into difficulties. The purpose of this article is to examine, in some unusual detail, a significant example of a failed knowledge management initiative in order to analyse what went wrong and to identify the key learning points. VL - 4 IS - 2 SN - 1367-3270 DO - 10.1108/13673270010372279 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/13673270010372279 AU - Storey John AU - Barnett Elizabeth PY - 2000 Y1 - 2000/01/01 TI - Knowledge management initiatives: learning from failure T2 - Journal of Knowledge Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 145 EP - 156 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -